More than meets the eye

Sponsoring ALCS replays while Tim McCarver prattled on seems to have helped Michael Bay turn a turd into gold.

Just read on Rolling Stone's blog that Bruce Springsteen's Magic is once again the No. 1 record in the country. It sold a whopping 77,247 copies last week. That's not the news. According to RS, only 7.93 million records moved last week. A sign of a more fiscally responsible America? Maybe everyone was waiting for the new Neil Young record? Nope.

I know Greg Oden loved the movie. I talked to a number people who enjoyed the movie. The movie sucked. The day after seeing the movie, my wife asked, "Do you know what would have made that movie better?"

"If the screenwriter had been waterboarded and Michael Bay had never been born?" I said.

Never in my life have I been so bored at something with so many moving parts. And I like shiny things that spin. Love things like that. I'll spend hours sitting, drooling and watching shiny things that spin.

One more thing to think about. Bob Dylan's got an ad for the Cadillac Escalade. Here's the 60-second version. Two minutes of his Bobness can be found here.